Some Virginia electronic voting machines get the candidates' names wrong

We live in a banana republic. The Republican Congress and George Bush had six years to get these voting problems right, and it's still screwed up. How could people buy machines that don't even work right? No one tested them with "long" names... like James Webb? This is their excuse? Seriously, how could we still be having these problems six years after the joke of an election of 2000? And then the same things happened in 2004. Is no politician willing to stand up and demand that these things be fixed?